I just had to get a few of these in "print." Like a good parent, I try to correct Jack's verb tenses whenever I can. I mean, I don't want him to grow up speaking improper English, right? Here is a recent short exchange:
JG: I don't have nothing good to eat!
AG: I don't have anything good to eat.
JG: I don't either!
It's possible that the learning moment I was trying to create, went right out the window when I laughed hysterically.
Here's another one. I returned home from doing a little bit of Christmas shopping recently. Jack always rushes to greet us at the door when we come home and usually gives us a brief synopsis of what's been happening. Last night, he informs me that he's been playing trains and Grant was getting his bottle. He says, "Daddy had to feed it to him because he's been sort of freaking out a little bit." I'm not sure which one of us he's quoting with that expression but it could really be credited to either!
And finally, speaking of mimicking... one night Jack was talking incessantly, as usual. After 15 straight minutes of him rambling and asking every question in the book followed by "mommy, mommy, mommy...," I said, "Jack you are driving me crazy!" Innocently and without disappointment he said, "Again?"
I love that kid.
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